Improvement in shoulder-braces



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Letters Patent No. 90,974, dated June 8, 1869. 4

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOULDER-BRACES.

The Schedule referred to in Vthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. WALKER, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shoulder-Braces, of which the following is'a full, clear, and exact description, reference4 being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figures 1 and 2 represent each my improvements, as applied to the body of a person; the former as connected to a body-belt, and the latter to the rear buttons of the pantaloons of the wearer.

This invention consists in the application of a triangularshaped gusset, A, of elastic, or flexible, or other fabric, -united to the lower edge of the shoulder-strap B, and to the outer .edge of the backstrap C of' a shoulder-brace, as clearly shown in the -drawings.

The object of this invention is to sustainl the shoulder-straps and the back-straps, and hold them in position, toprevent them being drawn ont of shape by any motion of the wearer; to prevent any undemovement of the back,or shoulder-straps, which will change their particular shape, or angles of connection; and to assist in keeping the straps B on the points ofthe shoulders, without obstructing the free use of the arms.

This combination of the gussets, the back-strap, and the shoulder-straps, perfectly secures the position of the brace to, or upon the points of the shoulders, where it belongs.

All other attempts with straps, or concaves, have either proved a failure, or hindered the free use of the arms and the Shoulders.

This combination provides a ready remedy for the v above-named diiloultiespand is free from such objections.

vice allows the cross-strap D to draw and change the angles, and misshape the brace, greatly to the inconvenience and discomfort of the wearer, ,besides injuring the brace.

This invention isintended as an improvement on myforxner ,invention and patent, of January' 31st, 1865; and I'nd it admirably adapted to various other kinds of shoulder-braces, but more particularly to suche-sare Shown in the drawings, and having vertical or parallel back-straps, and oblique shoulder-'straps connected with the former, and leading to, and over the points of the shoulders, as shown, and here the gusset is of considerablel importance for the purposes and objects l described. K

In this application, I disclaim the use of'au auxiliary brace-strap, extending from the strap B to the lower part, Or end of' the back-strap, for such a strap will not produce the result, or eliect described; but

Ido clai1n,`the combination, with the shoulder-strap B, and the back-strap C, of the gusset A, as shown and described, when arranged and applied in the manner and for the purpose specified.

GEO. W. WALKER.

Witnesses:

J. S. WHITNEY, JOHN E. CRANE. 

